Scottish Statutory Instruments
Community Empowerment
Made
8th November 2016
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
10th November 2016
Coming into force
20th December 2016
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 9(2) of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Community Planning (Locality Planning) (Scotland) Regulations 2016 and come into force on 20th December 2016.
2. For the purposes of section 9(2) of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 a locality must be—
(a)an electoral ward within the meaning given by section 1 of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004(2); or
(b)an area within the area of the local authority with a population which does not exceed 30,000.
KEVIN STEWART
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
8th November 2016
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations describe the localities into which community planning partnerships must divide local authority areas for the purpose of carrying out locality planning under Part 2 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.